University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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DEAN OF WOMEN A ' PROXIMATELY twciv ty five hundred under Amanda H. Heppner, A.M. Dean of Women graduate and cme hundred graduate women are registered in the University this year. The offiee of the Dean of Women attends to their needs and aids them in their adjustment to the college environment and col- lege demands. A housing bureau and an employ- ment bureau assist the young women in finding suitable lodgings and gainful employment. The office stands ready at all times to render such service as the needs of the college women may require. Counsel and information dealing with the varied problems and perplexities of women students are gladly given. The training received in the intra- and extra- curricular activities should prepare the student for proper college citi:;enship and for the larger and more effective citizenship in after-college life. The attitude toward opinions, traditions, and principles of the college world may determine one ' s attitude toward life in the larger world. The scholastic, ethical, moral, and spiritual standards will, in a measure, be responsible for the nature of the precepts and of the character of the maturer individual. The majority of the college women maintain fine standards and ideals, and are amenable to any suggestions which will guide them toward reaching their goal of fullest self-realisation through a college education. There has been a steady and notable improvement in the desire to promote superior scholarship. In spite of the fact that the requirements have been made severer, the number of recipients of scholastic honors has been in- creased. With the enlarged enrollment, the high-minded and right thinking leaders will need to stress constantly the import ance of excellent grades honestly obtained, and helji to direct their more confused or misguided classmates toward the worth- while achievements in college objectives which represent the real meaning and pur- pose of university life. Am. ' Knda H. Heppner. .4 ( u III Kill II Siiiilh Hall.

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I ' T. J. Thompson, Ph.D. Dean uf Student Affairs DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS T IS est. mated that this sprint; ppro.Minatcly 150,000 pei- sons will receive collegiate degrees. Upon graduation these youHi; people become the fin- ished product of the universi- ties and colleges and the raw- material of all walks of life. Within a twelve-month period a lartre proportion of them will be undergoing assimilation by the industries, the arts, and the professions; and within a few years they will have been card in- dexed, either actually or figuratively, and will have found their places in the particular strata of the social and economic life of which they are to be- come a part. Each of these graduates aspires to till a high position. However, initiative, capacity, and character, which are the sine qua non of achieve- ment, being at all equal, the college graduate who elects wisely those subjects that v -ill furnish broad training in his chosen field and who pursues them with a high degree of proficiency has a decided ad- vantage, not only over the non-college man, hut also over the graduate who aspires merely to obtain a degree. For example, the student who understands thoroughly political, economic, industrial, and geographical conditions stands a far greater chance of being a leader in the field of finance than does the student who understands simply the techique of bookkeeping, accounting, and banking. The doctor, the engineer, or the agriculturist who is soundly trained in the fundamental sciences has a far greater chance of rising in his profession than does the individual who has left serious consideration of these subjects out of his preparation. It was pointed out not long since that after four years of intensive training at West Point the cadet is graduated only as a second lieutenant, yet during the World War good second lieutenants were trained in less than six months. Why all the additional training and hard v. ' ork? Obviously it is to train the cadet in the broad fundamental concepts of military operations that he will need later in his career when he becomes a colonel or a general This is the type of training the University urges. This belief in the necessity of broad training is not simply an academic point of view, for the leaders in all lines of endeavor are becoming increasingly interested in the type of training which the student receives. An editorial in The Iron Age for October 14, 1926, in discussing What does industry want us to teach engineering students? , says in part: A school of learning cannot produce specialists for industry. Each position is unique; only broad fundamentals are common to all. Parallel with this interest in the type of training which the college graduate receives have come quite naturally studies upon the relationship between scholastic attainment of the student and his achievement in the world of affairs. Walter S. Gifford, head of the Bell Telephone System, writing in Harpers for May, 192S, on the subject, Does Business Want Scholars? , says: It appears that the man in the first thir . in scholarship at college, five years or more after graduation has not merely one chance in three, but about one in two of standing in the first third in salary. On the other hand, the man in the lowest third in scholarship has, instead of one chance in three, only about one in five of standing in tTie highest third in salary There is also nearly one chance in two that he will stand in the lowest third in salary. It is these qualities of training and proficiency that the world of affairs is looking for in the college graduate. While it is true that education has its intrinsic value in knowledge and culture, and as such quickens the sensibilities, stimulates the imagination, and arouses an appreciation of the worthwhile, it may also be made the direct handmaiden of achievement. T. J. Thomp.son.

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■■i COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ESTABLISHED m 1909 as one of the two colleges formed by the breaking up of the Industrial College, which was founded in 1877 and which was the first independent col- lege to grow out of the trunk of the mother college, the Col- lege of Agriculture has con tinued to grow and prosper. Its purpose has been threefold: To provide thorough instruction in the techni- cal agricultural sciences; to aid in the pro- motion of agriculture through its secondary schools of agriculture; and to promote house- hold arts through its department of home economics. Although It would seem that agriculture would be solely a course for men, there is equal opportunity in the college for women. Two types of instruction are included in the curriculum of the college, that of agriculture for the men and home economics for the women. The men are able to acquire new ideas as to the further development of agri- cultural enterprise through research work and constant study. Women are able to acquire the skill ot homemaking and a knowledge of economic values, which are integral parts of success. The experiment station operated in collaboration with the College of Agriculture has more than proved its worth and value. The varieties of winter wheat now in common use are largely selections from experiments. Oats have likewise been selected in the same manner and regional adaptation of corn, now universally followed, was first promoted by this station. The certified seed potato industry of northwest Nebraska is a college enterprise and egg production in the farm flock has been doubled under the accredited system now in vogue. Many College of Agriculture alumni occupy positions of trust and responsibility, being farmers, homemakers and leaders in their communi- ties. Besides being found among the tillers of the soil, graduates are employed in banks, loan companies, manufacturing companies and corporations dealing with many phases of agriculture, or are teachers in colleges and high schools, or investigators in agricultural stations. Outside of the realm of house- work, women graduates are found teaching home economics, managing tea rooms and cafeterias, designing clothing, and holding a great many responsible positions. The physical plant and equipment of the College of Agriculture is among the finest to be found at the University. Both theoretical and practical instruction in agri- cultural subjects is offered. W. W. Burr, B.Sc. Deciri of the College of Agriadture A blacl. -.in:tlL lab uit tin .1. caiiii)Uit